Last week, COVER spent a day at the London Design Festival and attended exciting exhibitions across London
Highlights from the London Design Festival 2024
read more
Textiles
Twelve Tempting Textile Gifts for Christmas 2014
Denna Jones Our eclectic range of twelve textile related gifts includes three experiential gifts – exhibitions in London, New York, and Berlin. Whether for others or yourself, there’s something here for everyone. On the border of the Blenheim Palace estate lies the...
Campaign for Wool Warms Up Southwark Cathedral
Denna Jones Lovers of wool are legging it around the capital to catch events, workshops and exhibitions allied to Campaign for Wool’s fifth annual UK Wool Week (6-12 October 2014). Knit-a-thon at Brora (and a Twitter auction to win the blanket outcome), meet the Maker...
New Designers 2014: the genius of Gen Z
Denna Jones The annual New Designers exhibition of recent graduate work from across the UK was dominated this year by a demographic whose outlook is a fusion of the youngest of the Millennials (born circa 1980), and the elders of Generation Z (born circa 1995). Your...
Laundry Bag Tartan Fashion by London Cloth Company
Denna Jones In advance of COVER’s exclusive interview later this year with Daniel Harris, Founder of the London Cloth Company, where we will reveal the weaver’s collaboration on a line of tweed upholstery fabrics, we highlight one of Harris’s line of suit-weight...
Vintage Dutch Design – AaBe Wool Blankets Exhibition
Denna Jones Wool blankets – cream with red or aqua stripes and yellow with red stripes and green borders - are stacked on a flat bed sleigh behind a harnessed reindeer in a snowy landscape. Clad in red with a fur framed yellow hood, the sleigh’s driver holds a receipt...
Turkish Textiles in Rome
The Fondaco Dei Turchi shop in Rome is run by Burak Serdaroglu, a Turk who has lived in Italy for twenty years. Serdaroglu sells handmade Turkish textiles which are make in a small family-run factory in Antioch in southeast Turkey. In this interview with Blouin...
Rubelli on Show in 2013
The fabrics produced by textile house Rubelli have all the drama, extravagance and historical reference that you would expect of a world-class Venetian company that has been in production for 155 years. Rubelli's 2013 presents a selection new designs that reflect...
Otsuki Sama
'Otsuki Sama' – meaning 'the majesty of the moon' (a concept of great significance in Japanese culture) – is the name of a website selling textiles, wallpaper, stationery and accessories inspired by traditional Japanese crafts. After spending 12 years living...